[crazygringo]

How do you know it was "AI-fuelled"? And what makes it a "frenzy"?

People have been committing terrible code to projects for decades now, long before AI.

The solution is a code review process that works, and accountability if experienced employees are approving commits without properly reviewing them.

AI shouldn't have anything to do with it. Bad code shouldn't be passing review period, no matter if it was AI-assisted or not. And if your org doesn't do code review, then that's the actual problem.

[eastbound]

> and accountability if experienced employees are approving commits without properly reviewing them.

You’re putting the entire responsibility on senior employees. So we need much more of them. In fact, we don’t need juniors, because we can generate all possible code combinations. After all, it’s the responsibility of the seniors to select which one is correct.

It’s like how hiring was made crap by the “One-click apply” on LinkedIn and all other platforms. Sure it’s easy for thousands of people to apply. Fact is, we offer quite a good job with high salary, and were looking for 5 people. We’ve spent a full year selecting them, because we’ve receive hundreds of irrelevant applications, probably some AI-generated.

It’s no use to flood a filter with crap, hoping that the filter will do better work because it has a lot of input.

[Incipient]

"give me a function to return the top 10 users" - copy paste "give me another to email a template to a list of users" - copy paste

AI makes it much easier to push out bad code, fast...in a "frenzied" way one could say.

[xanderlewis]

This is almost a special case of the very similar (and common) argument that ‘AI-generated misinformation isn’t bad; we’ve always had misinformation’.

The answer is also the same.

Volume. AI makes it trivially easy to generate vast amounts of it that don’t betray their lack of coherence easily. As with much AI content, it creates arbitrary amounts of work for humans to have to sift through in order to know it’s right. And it gives confidence to those who don’t know very much to then start polluting the informationsphere with endless amounts of codswallop.